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Rosie O’Donnell Escalates Feud With ‘Orange Human’ Donald Trump

In a poem posted on Substack, O’Donnell retaliated to Trump’s extraordinary criticism of her.

Rosie O’Donnell stoked her feud with Donald Trump Thursday by calling him a “cheater”, an “orange human,” and a “Russian asset.”

Donnell, who has suggested she moved to Ireland to get away from Trump, used a free verse poem to express her contempt in a Substack post.

O’Donnell was the subject of a bizarre question asked by conservative journalist Brian Glenn this week at a St Patrick’s Day joint press conference between Trump and the Irish leader Micheál Martin.

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Glenn—who is GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend—sprang to frame when he hectored Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky about why he wasn’t wearing a suit. He asked Martin: “Ireland is known for very happy, fun-loving people ... Why in the world would you let Rosie O’Donnell move to Ireland?”

Martin looked baffled by the question, unsurprisingly, as O’Donnell is largely unknown in Ireland, and definitely not on the radar of dour politicians in their mid-sixties unfamiliar with the granular detail of America’s culture wars.

Trump jumped in and said: “Did you know you have Rosie O’Donnell? Do you know who she is?... You’re better off not knowing.”

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On her Substack blog, Ms O’Donnell responded Thursday with a lengthy poem.

The verse ran, in part, as follows:

“im sure/its me/doom scrolling my brain/the president of the united states/met with leader michael martin/doing ireland proud/as he withstood the insults/cheater/the cheater screamed/accusing others/of his crimes/this orange human/is this the best we have/america/russian asset - traitor – spy/the time is now/it may be too late/the world is rooting for/the united states of america/to resist this coup/to fight for r country/to prevent ww3/to lead with dignity/with decency/with decorum/with democracy/and dreams/we hold these truths/to be self evident.”

O’Donnell said this week that she left the U.S. in January to move to Dublin, where she is eligible to claim citizenship thanks to an Irish grandfather, with her 12-year-old child. Ireland has seen unprecedented numbers of Americans seek to take advantage of the provision since the election

White House adviser Stephen Miller told Fox’s Sean Hannity that Trump forced her to “self-deport.”

He said: “It wasn’t explicitly one of our campaign promises, but it is a major first 100-day achievement, Sean. So, you are welcome America... You don’t have to worry about that problem anymore.”

During the 2016 presidential election campaign Trump was asked about calling women “fat pigs, dogs, slobs” and replied: “Only Rosie O’Donnell.”

Mr Trump doubled down on the comments during a 2015 presidential debate saying: “Rosie O’Donnell, I said very tough things to her and I think everyone would agree that she deserves it and nobody feels sorry for her.”

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